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    [–]Drewski[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

    Which part of the article do you disagree with? That masks have been politicized, or that it's solely a conservative / progressive divide on the issue? I agree that a divide and conqueror narrative is being pushed on us by the media, but I'm not following the issue you have with this article.

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    You hit the issue on the button. The elephant in the room is how to discuss such ideas without promoting it by publishing it, posting it. Silence is not the answer, so I put this out there in hopes we all can find a way to peaceful change. My comments about the posted article makes me the same hypocrite as the author and website. It is a paradox.

    I don't want to go into all the ideas expressed in this article that I find questionable. They are in the business of news and making money off of written word. They require sensationalism to garner click baiting clickers in order to create revenue. Hence, yellow journalism is the old phrase and it took Trump to create the new propaganda packaging, "fake news". It is not a new idea it is older than the invention of news papers.

    How do we discuss these issues without promoting the conquer by divide state we are all within at the moment? Non of us have been educated in doing such things for all of written history has been of the same. Non of us have lived out of this box we are in, therefore how would any of us know what it is like to be outside it? Let alone be able to envision such thoughts?

    Einstein is quoted to say something like this: Most people cannot express an opinion with equanimity outside/against the social prejudice of the times. Most people cannot even form such thoughts. I attempt to live up to this quote, yet fall short on the equanimity part.

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    What is equimanity?

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    lol it is equanimity, sorry I am dyslexic and don't always see the editing needed, thanks for the heads up.

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    Um I was actually geniunly asking what the word you quoted in your post meant.

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      Thanks